🎃 Nifty November: I (Eyestrain)

10th Grade, Manila Science High School, "Sustaining the tradition of excellence."

I think about this quote a lot.

"And yet, despite our resistance to it, I have never found myself feeling worse after the hard work was done. There have been days when it was damn hard to start, but it was always worth finishing. Sometimes, the simple act of showing up and having the courage to do the work, even in an average manner, is a victory worth celebrating."

—James Clear, What I Do When I Feel Like Giving Up

🍂September Solace: II (Fat Favors)

Last week made me merrily cry so hard. 10+ tasks accomplished, another to do for this week. Some were done hastily, few of them assiduously. Despite such episodes of mania, I managed to finish all of them on time!

We had a summative test on Chemistry and I was really burning paper because of how the time felt so fast. I assume I will have a few mistakes but I will try my best to study more about Introduction to Chemistry.

The most enjoyable task I did was my worksheets in Arts. I made a paper cartouche and a mosaic which both earned perfect scores. Making efforts in these kinds of tasks is the least I can do to make up for the subject.

Still, I am never fit for architecture. I had back pain for several days since I finished my drafting task in TLE. I admire my classmates' work because of how polished and clean they look while here I am, failing for over 4 hours and still passing crappy work. Nonetheless, I will always try my best to pass properly and punctually.

I'm above the top of the world today because I just learned piano on a tablet yesterday! What's more unbelievable is that I was able to teach my mom too! Like goodness gracious, we just sang the oldies while she was clicking the keys on the tablet's screen. I already knew about musical notes when I was in elementary school and chords as I play the guitar. Still, I cannot comprehend how fast it was. Man, oh man, God can really just give favors to the peculiar ones.

I hope to properly finish these 10 tasks this week and can't wait to learn new things!

By the way, stream BLACKPINK's new album, BORN PINK. My favorite among all of the songs is The Happiest Girl and gladly I can play it on the guitar and piano!

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🎧 : The Happiest Girl - BLACKPINK

📖: To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (paused)

Happy ADHD Awareness Month! I wish to be diagnosed and live a little bit easier than today from the fact that I already know how I am and what I should do about it. 💛✨

A little ADHD life hack for when Executive Dysfunction is making task completion difficult.

˗ˏˋ 1 year with strssdstdntsscty! ´ˎ˗

Hear, hear! Studyblr and my fellow narcoleptic, nocturnal, and nerdy owls, we made it through 9th Grade 🎉✨! A toast to victory, 🥂.

The school year 2022-2023 was indeed filled with magic, dreams, and good madness. From tireless mornings to sleepless midnights, we have completed an amazing chapter in our academic life. Ate. Slayed. Served. Left no crumbs! 💗💨

I hope you continue to read fascinating books, write heartfelt stories, draw captivating art, built great innovations, sing wonderful songs, and live how you want to be.

This is Dottie, your not-so-average student who aims to always strive for the best and enjoy learning. See you in the next school year! 🦉

👻 Operation October: II (Achy Breaky Down)

“A little nervous breakdown can work wonders for a girl.”

Last week was so tiring that I can't remember what I did. The group works here and there, with projects and assignments coming out of nowhere, my life was in a total freakout yesterday 🥴! But thank God for so loving the world, I was able to finish every one of them on time. I can recall some of my favorite moments last week.

I got a perfect score on our Trig quiz. This was where I learned again that revision is utterly important. Before I opened the form, I took my notebook and review the lessons covered on the quiz by just literally highlighting the statements of every theorem and applying their formulas. Of course, there is no greater magic in Trigonometry than analyzing the problem. Anyhow, I just got my own scientific calculator which cost almost half of my scholarship (I thank God for giving me this great academic opportunity) my grandmother bought from the National Book Store. I am currently obsessing over the fact that its color freaking matches my stationery supplies! Therefore, I assumed that God never disappointed me despite the unflagging week it was.

It itches me to show the world my presentation for my homemade product from a food preservation technique as a project for Consumer Chemistry 😋! However, I'd also like to forever gatekeep it til' the world knows me and shows it as my legacy when I leave the world. I wish things are always as fun as this but as far as I know, I didn't study here in this school to break myself, but to break records.

Operation October is having a bumpy ride these days but you can't make a mountain climbing record without having to walk its curvy body! We can do this! More record-breaking-not-me-breaking moments to come ✨.

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🎧 : The Pressure - The Cranberries

📖: Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen It's fall (at least in other countries). I can't miss it.

👻 Operation October: III (Conditionals and Calculations)

“Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.🙃”

🧁 This a special weekend post because time is not generous enough and my memory is currently fully stocked with knowledge and tasks that I cannot remember what happened last week. Unfortunately, I cannot also write in my diary due to unforeseen, unfelt, unheard... just insensible circumstances so my bullet journal is the only intimate possession I can surely utilize daily to organize my life.

Last week until now hit me the hardest! But as much as I'd like to be sad and mad about it, having less painful tension headaches these days might be a sign that my study habits are improving 🥺 and because of this, I felt like the happiest girl in the world with a tension headache.

Speaking of progress, my abusive love-hate relationship with numbers and Trig is becoming healthier day by day ✨. I can answer the new lesson's practice exercise without hopelessly pestering my best friend for a clue. However, a problem arises when I realized, I'm a few lessons behind in Math 😓. I plan to finish my revision by Saturday and be able to apply what I have learned next week until the quiz comes and the First Quarter ends 📅.

I'm the only one who doesn't know that I have great cooperating skills with my classmates (yeah, that's why you impulsively did your research topic alone when ma'am needs a group of 3). We had two group tasks in English, both class discussions of two different topics each, Modals and Conditionals with the usage of different communication styles. To sum up, we first picked the Formal style and performed it as a debate-and-discussion style. Just this week, we performed a Gilmore girls-and-Mean-Girls' inspired roleplay with the usage of Casual style. Unfortunately, ma'am stopped us midway presentation for still an unknown reason. Thus, we recorded our presentation again after class, and holy sanctuary I felt like I was in a movie 🎬! So, I was the "Paris Geller" in the roleplay and others have their dual role as a Gilmore girl and Mean Girl character. This is by far the most memorable group task I have ever had this school year! 🎀

Speaking of memorable stuff, I just finished producing the song of my group in Araling Panlipunan for a performance task this morning! I can't believe I improved a lot that I can confidently share my producing skills in academics. It's all thanks to God for helping me become the best me! 🍀

I wish I could write and share more of my experiences in these bumpy days, but I'm currently having an intense tension headache while typing this right now so that could mean that I need to go to bed 🤩.

Operation October is almost nearing its end, what a time to be alive and working! 🥳✨

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🎧 : Come Monday Night - God Help The Girl

📖: *currently trying to save up for Christmas and buy more Collins Classics!

👻Operation October: I (Revising in Grids)

“Believe that you have it and it shall be yours.”

May this month be filled with fruitful and fun-filled adventures with a tiny bit of wondrous nocturnal discoveries.

On the first two days of October, I just revised my notes on Trig, Music, Chemistry, and Physics.

One of my objectives this month is to emphasize the importance of note-taking and revision. I remember my previous year when I spent the whole academic year tearing up pages of my notebook because it wasn't "creative". Every night I go downstairs with lots of old colored pens and my Math notebook, forcing myself to write unpracticed calligraphy of the word Factoring. However, as I try to mitigate my perfectionism these days, I learned to just use my single black Panda Crystal Ballpen, correction tape, and plain grid notebook. As I skim through my notes, I felt comfortable and more grateful than I was.

Though I was weeks late in revision due to adapting to a new learning routine, my current situation also teaches me to learn time management because no one will do it for me.

Mid-autumn Missions:

Improve my performance in doing tasks, individually or in a group.

Ace every recitation and exam in every subject.

Apply the knowledge I have learned and will learn throughout the quarter.

Make every day enjoyable and worth living!

I may not be as apt as my classmates, but I'm still the most competent 😊.

"The only difference between your abilities and others is the ability to put yourself in their shoes and actually try." - Leonardo Ruiz

Cheers to another season of the narcoleptic, nocturnal, nerdy owl's adventures 🥂!

owlallthumbs, signing in! 🦉

Magical March! [1.2] ₊˚ʚ 💙 ₊˚✧ ﾟ.

“What's a girl gonna do? A diamond's gotta shine.” ― Taylor Swift

After a week of pre-prom assignment blitz, the bejeweled day finally happened! Yesterday was full of awaited things which made the night a hundred times better than the event—the promenade was absolutely fun, though!—itself 🥳.

One of those awaited things was the first meetup of my "first" friend in high school for 3 years and counting! Yes, and fortunately, it was not as awkward as I thought when I imagined them in my head every day before the prom 😭. Actually, we had planned—two times, to be exact—for our first hangout yet our introversion (same MBTI!) held us in captivity 🥰. Anyhow, we worthily spent the night talking about shared interests and stuff, tysm bestie!

Furthermore, we also get to hang out with our new friend in the group—our elective classmate and my section classmate—and three introverts, assembled! I also met their friends (my previous classmates and theirs) and all of us looked totally shining, shimmering, and splendid 😩. I finally had my movie character moment in a 2000s teen film!

I wish as we go back to a normal stressful week, we will be able to blithely slay it and stay victorious! 💅🏼💅🏼💅🏼

P.S. I will not be able to post a vlog because I deleted all the videos I took which were taken 3 weeks ago—my phone was nearly giving up, couldn't figure out how I can't send them on my mom's laptop, uploading all of them in Google Drive was gruesomely long, it was 3 weeks ago! (too lazy to edit)—so I'll stay as a blogger for now!

Magical March [1.1] ₊˚ʚ 💙 ₊˚✧ ﾟ.

“Only those with tenacity can march forward in March.” ― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

A 3-month hiatus must never prolong! Hello, studyblr and my fellow narcoleptic, nocturnal, and nerdy owls! ✨

So much has happened, will happen, and will keep happening. Every day is a step towards our dream. Let's fill the year with acknowledgment, appreciation, and achievements.

Stay glad and grounded! 🙆🏼‍♀️

School? Still there! Same goals, improving habits, and inspiring people. I just received my report card for the 2nd Quarter last Friday and my general average just got 1 point higher! Though most of my grades in major subjects are the same, I'm glad that I was able to maintain them and I'm totally driven to take 'em all up! My grade in Arts and Physical Education went a few points down due to having a low score on the test. However, there's nothing to be down in the dumps, I've been raising the stakes higher and the Lord's always here for me. 🙏🏼

❗ Important Event: HS Promenade

Our theme is Midnights: Amidst the Stars (yes, stream Taylor's album here!). The ball will be on the evening of this Saturday at a hotel just near my home!

Dress : ✔

Accessories : ✔

Self : 🙂

I hope this week will mark a great beginning of March and tell me that this month's going to be stark awesome!

I'm also planning to post my first vlog on my YouTube channel this Friday. It's time to welcome you into my videographic life, stay tuned! 🤩

9th Grade, Manila Science High School, "Sustaining the tradition of excellence."

“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”

— Neil Gaiman